Sometimes the war between man is secondary, and the war between man and nature is the key to the whole war, just as it was not the tsarist army that destroyed the 600,000-strong army of Napoleon's empire, but the bitter cold winter of Russia.

The mouth is relaxed, but Wang Hou's journey to transport grain is not simple, it is not difficult to sail across the Bohai Sea from Lianjiao, but the reliable shore is really difficult for him, the fleet along the coastline of Hebei in later generations to the north to find more than 100 kilometers, and even another shallow talk There are two sea ships that hit the reef and sank, so that Wang Hou felt distressed straight flesh pain, this is only in the distance of hundreds of miles north of Jieshi Mountain, about the later Qinhuangdao City found a suitable landing port.

But even if the ship finally stops, it's not just a matter of leaving the food behind, it's looking for robbery! Today's Liaodong and Liaoxi counties are not the time for the Han Dynasty to have the final say, Dong Zhuo's rebellion ended the authority of the Han Dynasty to protect the Wuhuan captain, and the three counties Wuhuan more than 200,000 households and dozens of tribes, as well as Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang brought more than 100,000 Youzhou residents to the north, are all headed by Wuhuan Khan Badun.

Once the nomads who live in pursuit of water and grass in Wuhuan are found by them, if there is no strong barrier, the hungry and cold tribes in the cold winter will even swarm around and rob without even having to give orders.

Before unloading the grain, it is necessary to firmly build a stronghold.

Fortunately, this is the cold winter wax moon, the ice and snow with strong plasticity provided a lot of convenience to Wang Hou, after a small number of troops landed, they used the wood they brought to build a trestle bridge for landing on the seaside, and then a reserve brigade of 5,000 people was forced to carry buckets and shovels and drink the northwest wind and rushed to the shore, "playing" with snow foam in the ice and snow.

Thankfully, Rizhao is a tool! With the hoe, even if it melts and freezes first, the shore has been piled up with a very hard layer of sticky snow, and the hoe refined from Taishan iron ore can be easily planed, and then the reservists wear big cotton gloves to put the snow into the basket and drag it back to the beach.

Cast with soil and have to take a mill to beat, the soil is patted firm, made into a triple soil, with snow blocks can not be used, the snow on both sides of the pile out of a frame, Daihe smashed a hole, the icy river water poured up, the biting knife wind blows, it does not take a few minutes to freeze on a layer, so under the interlayer of outer snow and inner ice, in less than three days, the ice wall of more than three meters high, a rectangular fortress by the sea with a circumference of more than 1,000 meters has begun to take shape, and the thickness of the wall has reached three meters, enough for several rows of infantry to fight on it.

On the wall, there are still hundreds of hard-pressed reserve infantry who are still begging for Wang Hou's hairpicking, constantly transporting snow blocks from the gaps left in the city wall, and transporting these frozen building materials to the wall from the slope built with snow in the stockade, and the remaining reserve soldiers are starting to set up tents and shelters in the stockade, after all, the guard granary can't live on the boat, and in the cold weather, if you fall asleep in the ice and snow, you will sleep here forever, and if you don't have enough heat preservation and heating to wear in the wild, you are looking for death.

The winter in western Liaoning is too cold, the first three days are half a day to work back to the boat to bake half an hour of fire, or people will freeze to death, now it is only a little more convenient to set up a circle of tents, this reserve soldier who resisted the wood from the boat to build the base of the granary to do two circles of work, or have to quickly get into the tent to roast his body.

Even if you wear a big cotton glove and a big cotton hat issued by Qingzhou, there are still a lot of frostbites, if you don't have these, your fingers may freeze! It is no wonder that Cao Chengcheng has no end in the army, but he does not dare to continue to march north in winter anyway, he is not as local as Wang Hou, 100,000 soldiers, more than 200,000 people and strong people are not worthy of cotton clothes at all, if you rush north, do not need Wuhuan to fight, nature can make the entire army directly into ice sculptures.

Standing on the ice wall with three layers of cashmere cushions under his feet and his feet are cold, watching his subordinates continue to build the snow wall, Wang Hou is not satisfied with the straight stamping of his feet, ice and snow regardless of hardness and plasticity in building materials are a must, however, the service life is a hard injury, the lunar calendar is nearly a month than the Gregorian calendar, the end of February and early March of the next year, the season of ice and snow melting, this snow village can not be maintained, and according to the speed of ancient war, Cao Zong, who set off from the end of February in February, is afraid that he will have to arrive here in mid-March or even April.

Other words! Before the ice and snow melt, we have to build another layer of internal barriers!

"Sir! Look! ”

Just when Wang Hou was still thinking about how to place the building blocks, Zhuge Ying, the women's army next to him, shouted and slapped forward like a lark, and Wang Hou's heart tightened, and he also raised the telescope forward.

Looking at these two eyes, his eyebrows couldn't help but be hurriedly raised, in the center of the telescope circle, on the edge of the white snowfield, three nomads in old sheepskin jackets with their hands on their foreheads set up pergolas, and were also looking at themselves, and had to admire the eyesight and vigilance of these people, Wang Hou raised the telescope and didn't look at it a few times, it seemed that they had already been aware of it, leading the horse to turn around, the three of them carried the extremely cold sea breeze on the seaside, and they were not panicked, and ran back jogging.

In the end, let the Wuhuan people find out!

"Do you want to chase it?"

The little face was also red from the cold, and she had been crazy with Wang Hou for a long time, and Zhuge Ying, who was originally active, turned into a militant, carrying her back with her small hand, and the old cannon barrel shotgun that Wang Hou gave her was thrown down, and the red little face under the big hat looked at Wang Hou excitedly, and the girl asked eagerly.

However, he put down the telescope heavily and snorted the frozen snot, but Wang Hou shook his head deeply.

Even if the western Liaoning corridor is almost a large plain, but the plain also has ups and downs, the pimple is a swamp, and I don't know where the river is, this piece is also a real strange place for the Qingzhou Army. There are few soldiers in Qingzhou, and the battle line is still too long, and the soldiers gathered here at present are only two regiments plus about 100 of his own soldiers, so there is really no need to take this risk.

"I don't know how long these Wuhuan people have been lurking nearby, maybe we just found out today, and it's useless to chase them! Sent someone to tell Lu He that the rest of his brigade ended early, and ordered him to quickly install defenses on the periphery of the fortress to prevent the Hu people from raiding! ”

"In addition, I sent someone to inform the logistics troops, and the distribution of shortbread and spirits in the island city has been increased by one-third, but the working hours of the reserve brigade in the island city have also increased for me, and the food must be unloaded from the ship these days!"

"The concubine knows!"

was a little disappointed, but Zhuge Ying still obediently hugged her fist and answered, and then ran down the wall of the stockade briskly, grabbing a guy who was shouting in the middle of the stockade and shouted, one level pressed one level, and soon, the Qingzhou reserve soldiers working below seemed to have doubled the speed, and the movements became faster and more urgent.

Wang Hou himself was angry, and once again looked into the distance with a telescope, and after a few glances, he commanded the sergeants under him who were building the battlements.

"You! Right! It's up to you, build a two-story watchtower for this seat in the four corners! ”

"Be quick!"